The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-03

cess, and bidding you all good bye for 8
while, allow me to subscribe myself,
Yours truly, JESSE RUSSELL.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. g., Oct. 81, 1887.
Washington society is anticipating a
brilliant season, and the devotees of the
gay world of life and fashion, have much
upon which to base their agreeable ex-
pectations. The month of November
will start the social ball rolling in quiet,
decorous way, as slight premonition of
the greater joys to follow when the
season is fairly upon us. Nothing SEN
sational is expected, but the Winter pre-.
ceding Presidential election is always
an unusually lively one in Washington.
The number of prominent arrivals among
people of wealth, who come to spend the
Winter here, will contribute to the series
of handsome entertainments in which
the season will abound. The White
House receptions will surpass previous
efforts, and Mrs. Cleveland, the charming
and accomplished hostess, will be, as
usual, the object of universal admiration.
Mrs. Cleveland has not resumed her
receptions to the public, but it is thought
she cannot much longer deny herself to
the crowds of eager visitors, who daily
visit the White House with the principal
object of seeing her. And in considera.
ton of this general desire, it is thought
she will appoint an early day for the re.
ception of those who desire to meet her.
The cabinet officers have all returned
to the city, and are tremendously busy
in the preparation of their annual reports
to the Preaident. Secretary Whitney
has been compelled, by temporary i'll.
health, to seek rest and quiet away from
Washington, and it is feared that he may
not sufficiently convalesce to prepare his
report, in which event detailed state.
ment of the workings of the Navy de-
partment will be deferred until his return
in restored health. This will disappoint
popular interest, as the reforms and i'm
provements claimed to have been accom-.
plished in the government of our naval
affairs have been loudly heralded, and
the people are anxious to obtain that
fuller knowledge, which only the report
of the Secretary will afford. 1t is not
doubted, however, that the official state
ment will fail to confirm all that has been
said.
The feeling in Washington, among
Democrats generally, and especially
among those who were formerly in active
sympathy with the South, is, that the
speech, recently delivered by Mr.. Jack
son at Macon, Georgia, in which the
speaker sought to revive sectional bitter
ness by his laudations of Jefferson Davis
and the cause be defended, was unwise,
unpatriotic and i'll timed. It's letter and
spirit are repudiated, and regret is ex-
pressed that he should have so misused
his opportunity by thrusting himself
into this momentary prominence to the
possible detriment of tbs South. It is
denied that he, in any sense, represents
the Southern feeling. He spoke for him.
self alone. His sentiments are not ap-
plauded, nor are they endorsed by those
representative Southerners residing here,
who disown and disclaim any sympathy
with the apparently deliberate attempt
to reflect upon and depreclate the loyalty
of the South, and place her in so false
an attitude in which our ex.Minister to
Mexico would seek to place her.
The attorney for Geo. II. Thobe, con.
testant against Speaker Carlisle for seat
in the next Congress, has filed his brief
with the Clerk of the House. The brief
asserts that Thobe was elected by 600
majority. This result is found by reject.
ing 1000 votes cast for Carlisle, aud 200
votes cast for Thobe, which were polled
at precincts where, it is claimed, the
Kentucky election laws were not observed.
The brief cites congressional precedents
from 1741, and quotes ad missions made
by Mr.. Carlisle in. his answer to contest.
ant, which are held to be fatal to his
case. Meanwhile Mr.. Carlisle is doing
nothing for his own defense, and the
contest is awaited with much interest.
The collections of internal revenue
during the first quarter Of the fiscal year,
ending June 80, 1888, were s31, ,36G,0G6,
being an increase of s2,461. 1852 more than
the collections during the same quarter
of last fiscal year. The receipts from
tobacco were SS,47S,014, an increase of
S444,557; from spirits were s15,421, ,474,
an increase of s7sS,772; from fermented
liquors $G,S67,99S, an increase Of 1922
367; from oleomargarine were Sl57,679,
and from banks and BANKERS 1882.
A convention of third and fourth. class
postmasters is soon to be held in this city
for the purpose of working on the sym.
pathies of Congress in the direction of
an increase of compensation. 1t will be
remembered that the proposition some.
time ago for a national convention of
postal clerks, designed to improve that
branch of the service, was met by the
chilling reply Of the Postmaster General
that the best way to accomplish their
laudable object was by sticking to their
work. It is not improbable that the
postmasters will encounter the same wet
blanket from their commander in chief,
who does not entirely approve of such
conventions.
-W VIM. Minter, of Chester county grew
fifty.two pumpkins on one vine this year.